[Dovecot] Secure Sockets Layer client certificate authentication

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 01:05 +0100, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
> > Right. A password is always required, but you can set Dovecot to accept
> > any password. Set the password field empty in the passwd file and add
> > nopassword extra field. http://wiki.dovecot.org/AuthDatabase/PasswdFile
> > 
> > 
> 
> I have to admit I've seen that.  I  want to turn off password prompt
> entirely, in effect external authentication.
> 
> Is it a bad idea to remove the password prompt if any password will be
> accepted?

There is an EXTERNAL SASL authentication mechanism, which I guess
Dovecot could pretty easily support. But I'm not aware of any clients
that support it even if I did bother to implement it.

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